Re: KDE file dialogs in Thunderbird and Firefox

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:34:45 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.kde
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 17/07/2020 22.07, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Carlos E. R. <[email protected]> [07-17-20 14:14]:
>> On 10/07/2020 08.26, Tom wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> it seems like Thunderbird and Firefox use GTK dialogs for opening and
>>> saving files by default. To make them use native KDE dialogs the
>>> environment variable GTK_USE_PORTAL must be set to 1. One way to do that
>>> is to edit the .desktop files for the applications [1].
>>>
>>> Alternatively, the line
>>>
>>> export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
>>>
>>> can be added in ~/.profile or even globally under /etc/profile.d/.
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to add the global export in a package (e.g., a
>>> branding package)? This should make Firefox and Thunderbird use the KDE
>>> file dialogs by default for most users. Or would that have any unwanted
>>> side effects?
>>
>> What about the people that are not using a KDE desktop?
> 
> they are not in opensuse-kde, with one exception.

Which is precisely why I posted the question.


-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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